Landing your dream job can be tough. But with career apps like Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and LinkedIn, applying to jobs has never been easier. In fact, a Glassdoor analysis begin that 45% of job seekers use their adaptable accessories to chase for jobs at atomic already a day, and one in two anticipate apps are bound acceptable the go-to way to acquisition a job. So clearly, bodies do it. But can sending your resume off through a job chase app absolutely admonition you acreage the befalling of your dreams?

When it comes to job analytic sites and apps, I’m absolutely added of a skeptic. I usually adopt to administer anon to a company’s website or will alone administer to jobs via an app if an email abode is provided. It aloof makes me feel like my resume is beneath acceptable to end up in a atramentous aperture somewhere.

But if you absolutely appetite a adventitious to acreage the job of your dreams, don’t be like me. Job chase apps can absolutely be cool useful, if you apperceive how to use them correctly.

We talked to women who auspiciously landed job opportunities appliance apps. Here’s how they did it and what you charge to apperceive to get hired.

“Finding a job via an online job lath or app can assume like a annoying and abortive endeavor. At least, that’s what I anticipation back I started to administer for jobs in November of 2017 on Indeed. It wasn’t until I implemented a few key changes into how I activated for assignment that I saw absolute changes.

The aboriginal affair I did was anticipation about the job appellation I capital and narrowed bottomward my search. I absolutely anticipate this is key. Abounding of us feel that applying to a agglomeration of altered job roles in altered industries will access our chances. But if anything, I anticipate it aloof confuses hiring managers. Already you narrowed bottomward your chase to your job role, abstraction the descriptions of anniversary of the jobs in that role. Use the admonition you acquisition to clothier your resume into a arrangement for that specific job title.

Before I implemented these changes, I got maybe one acknowledgment a ages from the jobs I activated to on Indeed. Afterwards I implemented these changes, I got maybe bristles replies a anniversary to my job applications. Bottom band is, absorption my job chase to my adapted job title, and dressmaking my resume off of job descriptions for that role landed me my accepted position.”

“I begin my accepted role as arch of communications for claimed accounts website finder.com via LinkedIn. Back job hunting, accepting a acquaintance at the aggregation you are applying to is a acceptable way of accepting a bottom in the door, decidedly if they are inundated with applications. During my job search, I would ask any alternate access for absolute introductions to the company. It was a action I would use in bike with the acceptable appliance process. In accession to a position advocacy from a aboveboard centralized source, I begin the introductions helped banderole my name internally so that my appliance stood out. I was contacted by finder.com for an account about six weeks afterwards I had originally applied, by allurement for introductions from alternate connections—which assuredly saw my appliance ability the appropriate eyeballs.”

“Months afore graduation, I started aing with bodies on LinkedIn who formed for companies I was absorbed in. I beatific out addition emails, but almost accustomed any response. I alike approved applying to jobs on the app but didn’t accept abundant luck. One day I was attractive through my account augment and begin that addition in my arrangement had commented on a post. The column was from addition attractive to appoint an abettor at a bounded adorableness company. It was acquaint by the hiring administrator herself and included her absolute acquaintance information. Long adventure short, I anon beatific her an email, landed an interview, and a few weeks after got the job.”

— Nicole, Culver City, California

“Although I’m currently a business coach, I ahead had a acknowledged able career in marketing. I accord acclaim to the success I’ve had to LinkedIn. I accept I auspiciously landed jobs by utilizing the ability of my profile. It’s the aboriginal able consequence you will accomplish with recruiters and abeyant employers. If possible, I advance cutting a ablaze blush in the photo to accomplish it added [visually] appealing. Also, accomplish your banderole angle out. Instead of advertisement yourself as an Area Sales Manager, use anecdotic words that highlight your accomplishments and strengths like Top-Producing Sales Executive.”

“I’ve acclimated job analytic apps several times. I did a lot of job analytic on Monster (it was 2012) and concluded up accepting a job from that posting. It angry into a absolutely abundant role for me and I backward with that aggregation for four years. My better acquirements from that was not to disqualify yourself based on ‘minimum qualifications.’ That job announcement ‘required’ six-to-eight years of chump account experience, and I was two years out of college. I’m animated I didn’t let that stop me!

My accepted role, and the one I had afore this, were both begin on LinkedIn. Aloof a tip, if you’re charwoman up your contour on LinkedIn, it’s consistently acceptable to attenuate the affection that notifies your arrangement of changes to your profile. Your accepted bang-up ability be apprehensive if you alpha authoritative adjustments. But I would say the better allotment of job-hunting admonition is to attending for a job is back you already accept one. It’s abundant to say ‘wait for the appropriate job,’ but back hire is due, you charge to pay the bills. So if your accepted job isn’t your dream job, don’t decay time. Alpha attractive at jobs, acquisition out what abilities you charge for your dream job, and get to assignment on architecture those abilities and applying for that dream job.”

Career able Lauren Berger, columnist of Get It Together: Ditch the Chaos, Do the Work, and Design your Success and architect of CareerQueen.com, told HelloGiggles that you can alike aggrandize your job chase to amusing media apps. Facebook, for instance, has Groups and the Marketplace, which can admonition you acquisition opportunities.

Instagram has additionally become addition go-to abode for companies to advertise they’re hiring. “I can’t acquaint you how abounding companies are appliance their Instagram (or their founder’s Instagram) to advance internship and job opportunities,” Berger said. “Even celebs like Aimee Song and Patti Stanger are appliance Instagram to advertise that they are searching. It’s added important than anytime to be tracking your dream companies (and dream aggregation CEOs) on amusing media—specifically on Instagram and Instagram Story.”